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Conferences: THANK YOU for your flexibility with conferences in February! Mother Naturegave us a surprise and we had to adjust! It was great to see so many of you here checking in onyour children’s progress! If you were not able to attend conferences, please contact one of yourchild’s teachers and arrange a time to meet! Thank you, too, to the Robinson PTSO for provid-ing a delicious lunch from Panera during conferences! We appreciate your thoughtfulness!

State Assessments: State Assessments will begin when we return from Spring Break! At con-ferences, teachers shared a calendar of assessment dates for each students. Attendance duringState Assessments is crucial! Please make an extra effort to have your student at school on timeon the days they will be testing!

No School: Spring Break is almost here!! Mark your calendars! There is no school for students on March 8 – 17!School for students will resume on Monday, March 18! Enjoy your break…fingers crossed for warm weather andsunshine!

Spring Forward: Don’t forget to spring your clocks forward! Daylight Savings time officially begins March 10th!

Robinson National Academic League: We are so proud of the Robinson NAL team! The competed in the DistrictChampionship Game which was held at Allison on February 21. The Rams lost to the Eagles, but the 4th quarter wasso exciting! Both Robinson and Allison will advance to the National Tournament! Good luck, Rams! Congratula-tions on a great season!

Robinson Science Olympiad: Congratulations to the Robinson Science Olympiad Team! They are headed to theState competition after taking first place in their Regionals which were held on Saturday, February 23, at AndoverCentral High School! Nice work, Team!

Robinson Math Counts: Congratulations to the Robinson Math Counts Team! They team will travel to Topeka forthe state competition. Members of the Mathcounts team are as follows: Bo Lu, Renton Smartt, Jolyn Jacobs-Gar-za, Ben Allen, and Nathan Phan. Best wishes for a successful competition!

Girls’ Basketball: Congratulations to the Lady Rams! They had a great season and ended the season with a thirdplace finish in Division One!

March 2019For an updated Calendar of Events visit:http://www.usd259.org/robinson/calendar

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ASP NewsRobinson families - the Y Strong kids campaign, ASP & Mrs. Terrye would like to thank every-

one that contributed to the fundraiser. We reached our goal!!The winner for the pie in the face contest is Ms Falvey & Kelsey, they will receive their reward

at the staff vs. student basketball game on Thursday, March 7th!

Parents of ASP the students received a take home survey for you to fill out. WSU forgot to putRobinson on there so can you please disregard that one and take this survey by clicking the link

below:

ASP Take Home Survey

Thank you all so much!!!

Congrats to Sharon Sun who won the Prep. Division of the Kansas StringTeachers Association Competition last week! She got to perform her solo for thestrings teachers luncheon on Friday, as well as won a cash prize!

Congratulations to the Science Olympiad team for their first place win at the regional compe-tition on Saturday! Robinson placed in the top six in twenty-one of twenty-three events. Thetop three finishers are as follows:

3rd place Water Quality: Paige Killingsworth and Ethan Wessley2nd place Circuit Lab: Will Porcaro and Nithish Aravinthan2nd place Crimebusters: Kate Halabi and Evalynn Reynolds2nd place Fossils: Morgan Sinsel and Paige Killingsworth2nd place Herpetology: Augustin Au and Ethan Wessley2nd place Meteorology: Will Porcaro and Nithish Aravinthan1st place Disease Detective: Kate Halabi and Evalynn Reynolds1st place Dynamic Planet: Augustin Au and Ethan Wessley1st place Game On: Morgan Sinsel and Micah Reese1st place Potions and Poisons: Sameeha Rashid and Kate Halabi1st place Road Scholar: Jaydee Brown and Charley Findling1st place Solar System: Ayaan Parikh and Rahul Madhaven1st place Write It Do It: Paige Killingsworth and Morgan Sinsel

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Shelter Life Insurance Student of the Month

The following students were nominated by their teams for the Shelter Insurance Student of the Month:

● Ismael Berry, 6th grade● Jaylah Terrell, 7th grade● Blythe Mier, 8th grade● Katie Evans, Pre-IB● Shaylee Pickell, Exploratory Team.

These students stand out every day and meet the criteria outlined below by the staff for being considered for thisreward. Congratulations to our February students of the month! They received a free movie ticket courtesy ofKatie Schamle, Shelter Insurance Agent!

S – Shows School Spirit by promoting a positive school climate through actions and words.H – Hard worker and shows effort to achieve goals through a commitment to improve and do their best.E – Embraces diversity and shows tolerance to others that may be different than themselves.L – Leadership is shown by being a positive example for others to follow.T – Treats school property, student body, and staff with respect.E – Engaged in their school or home community through participation in clubs, extra-curricular activities,or other citizenship endeavors.R – Responsible for showing growth in their schoolwork and attendance at school.

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The Robinson Chess team participated the last chess tournament in Wichita forthis season at Holy Cross on Saturday, February 23rd.

A total of 7 Robinson students competed in the K-8 division, they did a great joband won the 2nd place as a team. They are Sydni Hoover, Charlotte Bostock,Lana Shaheen, Avalyn Ngo, Ethan Lau, Bo Lu and Jolyn Garza. (Pictured left toright).

The chess team is going to the State tournament at Emporia, KS on March 9th!

Congrats to Que’dun E.! He was Robinson’s 99% Award Winnerand was recognized by the BOE during a formal ceremony!

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6th Grade News

Dear 6th Grade Families -

As the beginning of the fourth nine weeks approaches, we know how challenging itcan be to keep kids focused. Therefore, the 6th Grade Team will be taking an incen-tive based field trip to at the end of May. The cost is approximately $13 per stu-dent to cover bus and entrance fees. Students will be encouraged to exhibitCHARGE behaviors, so they can participate in our field trip by having two or lessbehavior referrals to the office. More information to come later.

Thanks, The 6th Grade Supreme Team

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